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Historical Context
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Interactive Exploration
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"Cosmographiae introductio"
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Imago Mundi
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The Ancient World
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Cathay and Cipangu
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The Route to the Indies
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The New World
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The Earth
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The Ocean
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The Sky
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Digital Library
Navigation and celestial observation
Astronomical instruments for navigation
Measuring time
The longitude problem
Amerigo Vespucci’s "Cosmography"
“Then I turned to the right, setting my mind upon the other pole, and saw four stars not seen before except by the first people.”
Dante Alighieri,
Purgatorio
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